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Theme Text type Grammar Vocabulary Useful phrases Module: Study, school life and work Unit 1 (p.2) Applying for a summer job Letter of application N (8) • Simple past tense and present perfect tense N (8) • Defining and non-defining relative clauses N (8) • Jobs • Describing personalities or skills • Phrases to write a letter of application Unit 2 (p.12) Proposing a school event Proposal L (2) • Making suggestions: could and might L (2) • Connectives (1) N (2) L (6) • Events and people involved • Benefits of organizing an event • Phrases to write a proposal Module: Rights and responsibilities Unit 3 (p.22) Making a complaint Letter of complaint N (5) • Present and past participles as adjectives N (5) • Indefinite pronouns N (1) • Idioms about problems or bad feelings • Ways to solve a problem • Phrases to write a letter of complaint Unit 4 (p.32) Should junk food be banned in schools? Debate speech N (6) • Although / though and despite / in spite of N (7) • Persuasive expressions L (3) • Places that sell junk food • Characteristics of junk food • Phrases to write a debate speech Module: Wonderful things Unit 5 (p.42) A real treasure Story N (7) L (6) • Past perfect tense N (6) L (6) • Gerunds and to-infinitives N (6) • Items in a treasure hunt • Phrasal verbs and idioms for writing a story • Phrases to write a story and mean that similar text types have appeared in previous TSA and HKDSE exam papers. N ( ) and L ( ) mean that similar text types and grammar items can be found in the specified units of New Treasure Plus (Second Edition) and Longman English Spark! respectively.
